Modern History Theses: Recent submissions
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Propaganda and territorialisation : SA imagery and power, 1923-1945
(2023-06-15) - ThesisIt was once argued that the Sturmabteilung lost political power in the Nazi state after the 1934 Night of the Long Knives. However, since the 1980s, there is a growing body of literature that has shown that the SA not only ... -
Narratives of grievance and victimisation in Iranian foreign policy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddeq, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini and President Manhood Ahmadinejad
(2023-06-15) - ThesisThis thesis investigates one of Iran’s grand narratives, the myth of victimisation, as a tool of the Iranian political elite to achieve foreign policy goals. It studies the leadership of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi (1941-1979), ... -
Russia’s military strategy and the Entente in the First World War, 1914–1917
(2023-06-15) - ThesisIn the last thirty years the appreciation of the First World War as ‘the war of coalitions’ has gained widespread recognition, and firmly established itself as one of the most prominent approaches to the evaluation of the ... -
The Dundee Arctic trade, 1858-1922 : people, connections and spaces on the peripheries
(2023-06-15) - ThesisExisting whaling historiography frames the end of the traditional whaling era in the Arctic along established interpretational and methodological paradigms. These perspectives consider the industry almost entirely within ... -
'The “English disease” : identities of melancholy in early modern England'
(2023-06-15) - ThesisThis thesis explores the various identities of the disease of melancholy in England between c.1580 and 1789. Melancholy was a disease with a long and ambiguous history of symptoms and meanings which can be traced back to ...